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First US edition. The subtitle of this novel based on the explorer Estienne Barbier, who conned his way into an 18th c expedition in the Cape of Good Hope, is "being the life of a famous rebel, soldier, traveller, explorer, reader, builder, scribe, latinist, lover and liar."
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"On the surface On the Contrary is a picaresque historical novel, in which 18th century adventurer Estienne Barbier graduates from seducing French wives to South African widows via a long and bruising association with the Dutch East India Company. Underneath [it] is about today's South Africa and the dilemmas facing people challenging the status quo." - Sunday Telegraph
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"An immensely generous novel, vivid and adroit in its use of history." - The Times
"Peter Carey--Garcia Marquez--Alexander Solzhenitsyn: André Brink must be considered with that class of writer." - Guardian
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London: Secker and Warburg, 1993, London, 1993
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